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From: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@hera.kernel.org>
To: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] afs: fix possible null pointer dereference in afs_alloc_server
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 07:59:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100530075927.GA4912@hera.kernel.org> (raw)

Fix possible null pointer dereference since kzalloc can return null

Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
---
fs/afs/server.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/server.c b/fs/afs/server.c
index f490995..32e2a91 100644
--- a/fs/afs/server.c
+++ b/fs/afs/server.c
@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@ static struct afs_server *afs_alloc_server(struct afs_cell *cell,
 		server->addr.s_addr = addr->s_addr;
 	}
 
-	_leave(" = %p{%d}", server, atomic_read(&server->usage));
+	if (likely(server))
+		_leave(" = %p{%d}", server, atomic_read(&server->usage));
+	else
+		_leave(" = -ENOMEM");
 	return server;
 }
 

             reply	other threads:[~2010-05-30  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-30  7:59 Denis Kirjanov [this message]
2010-06-01 15:47 ` [PATCH] afs: fix possible null pointer dereference in afs_alloc_server David Howells

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